On this weekend 17 years ago — in the heat of the Democratic primary of 2008 between Hillary & Obama — I started BrianHassett.com. Every month since then for 17 years I’ve written at least one new piece for the site. “17” has been a weird number that’s followed me around my whole life from […]
17th Anniversary of Producing a Story a Month for BrianHassett.com
February 8th, 2025 · 7 Comments · Hitchhiker's Guide to Jack Kerouac, Kerouac and The Beats, Movies, Real-life Adventure Tales, Weird Things About Me
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Dead & Company at The Sphere in Las Vegas review
June 30th, 2024 · 7 Comments · Grateful Dead, Music, Real-life Adventure Tales
. Sphere & Laughing in Las Vegas photo by Jay Blakesberg for Dead & Company . This is the Acid Tests … in a two-billion-dollar spaceship! I’d been reading about The Sphere for years before it was ever built. It sounded too wild to be true! And of course I immediately thought how perfect […]
Tags: Acid Tests·Bob Weir·Dead & Company·Duke Ellington·George Lucas·Grand Canyon·Grateful Dead·Jay Lane·Jeff Chimenti·John Mayer·Las Vegas·Millennium Falcon·Oteil Burbridge·Sphere & Loathing in Las Vegas·Taylor Swift·The Sphere